"While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order."

-- Ellen Willis

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“We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.”

Source : Quoted in Richard Hakluyt, Third and Last Volume of the Voyages (1600).
“The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.”
“There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.”
“The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.”
“There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off oneâ€™s dreams until some improbable future â€“ a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded oneâ€™s life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of.”

Source : Josef Škvorecký (1986). “The engineer of human souls: an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death”, Picador
“The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.”

Source : "Ron Daniels Breaks Down Obama's Speech to NAACP". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. July 15, 2008.
“Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions”

Source : "Technology: Can We Put the Genie Back in the Bottle?" by Jim Selman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2013.
“Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.”

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